Gorbea Sweeps to Second Term as RI Secretary of State

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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

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Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea won reelection on Tuesday. With 92% reporting, Gorbea has 66.9 percent of the vote.

Gorbea, who in 2014 was elected as the first Latina politician to statewide office in New England, defeated Republican challenger Pat Cortelessa who garnered 32.9 percent.

In her first race for Secretary of State four years ago, Gorbea defeated Republican John Carlevale with 60.5% of the vote

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"As Secretary of State, I have been improving access to the ballot box, while protecting the integrity of every vote,” said Gorbea. “At the federal level, we have RI leaders protecting our democracy as well. Congressman Jim Langevin, a national cybersecurity expert, has done impressive work on cybersecurity which builds on his record of innovation as a former Secretary of State. Congressman David Cicilline led the way in helping keep our voter rolls accurate with his proposal for Automatic Voter Registration.”

At a recent meeting, Secretary Gorbea provided an update on how Rhode Island bolstered its elections security planning ahead of the November election and how $3 million of Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funding allocated to the state by Congress earlier this year through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, is being used to “strengthen the security of Rhode Island’s elections infrastructure.”